Morning journal and courier., 1887-11-30
News by Telegraph
FROM ALL QUARTERS.
HERR MOSTFOUND GUILTY
Though The Judge Charges
EavorabIy.
SHARP TO HAVE A new TRIAL.
The Supreme Courts De-
cision Reversed.
Big DRY GOODS men WIND UP.
Big DRY GOODS men WIND UP.
A Mammoth Concern Goes
Into Liquidation.
THE JURY OUT OVER FeUR HOURS

THE JURY OUT OVER FOUR HOURS
| After Several Ballots a Verdict of
Guilty is Reached Against Herr
| MosG-His Counsel Move For Now
Trial and the Anarchist Goes Back
| TO the Tombs-MOst's Career in
Europe as Related On the stand.
New YORK, Nov. 29.-Herr Most took the
| stand to day when the trial opened. Most
| answered Lawyer Howe in the negative to
| each question as he read over the separate
formal charges in the indictment and asked
| him if he had done the things charged. He
said that at the meeting in Kraemer's hall he
| did nothing more than denounce the doings
at Chicago, and that he made no threat and
asked no one to do any violence. Witness
| testified that Mr.. Schultz was the chairman
and not Mr.. Schenck as the policeman had
| stated. He addressed his hearers as ''Fellow
citizens" and not as anarchists. He then
went on to give his version of the speech he
made It lacked the threats and violent Ian
guage he is charged with having uttered.
''On the cry of revenge being uttered in the
audience" he went on, 81 said, Not now.
The capitalists are arrayed against u.s. We
are here to accuse, and I accuse Grinnell,
Gary and the judges of the murder" He
had described Powderly as an instrument in
the execution by not taking sides with the
condemned men. Then, too, there was
Henry George. He is narrow minded and
not wise. but he ought to be clever enough to
know the difference between right and wrong
and should have enlisted sympathy for the
men. He was not sure that he said he would
give ten years of his life to know the hang
man and that he would strangle him. He had
never said that for every man killed in Chi
scago five hundred would be slaughtered. On
cross examination Mr.. Nicol1 questioned
Most on the record of his past life. The
prisoner said he had been convicted of trea-
son in Austria in 1859 and had been impris-
oned one year. In 1870 he was again con-
victed in that country of the same crime, and
got five years sentence, but gained his
liberty in 1871, through an amnesty granted
to political prisoners. In 1872 he was sem
fenced to one years imprisonment in Berlin
for calling the Emperor of Germany a
'fslaughterer" and "massacrerer." In
1874 he was sentenced to imprisonment for
one year and six months for a speech made
in Berlin, on the memorial day of the Paris
commune. In 1877 he was sentenced in
Berlin to two months imprisonment for
blasphemy. In 1881 he was SEN
fenced in England to eighteen months i'm
prisonment for applauding in the Freiheit the
killing of the Gar When he got out of
remained here. The witness admitted hav-
ing written book on 'FFree Society, !" Social
Movements in Ancient Rome" "Bastile of
Plotzee,' "The He'll of Blackwell's Island"
and others. A wrangle between the lawyers
ensued when Most was asked if he had writ
ten book on the cart of Revolutionary
Warfare, FOR book on Dynamite and Other
Explosives" He refused to answer on the
ground that the answer would tend to crimi-
nate him. He also declined to answer
whether he believed the modern explosives
were necessary to carry out his ideas;
Ivsa 9th 70 he
cheapest method of making explosives;
whether he had advised that an electric bat
terry be used at distance to explode dyna-
mite, but when few moments can be had to
get away fuse of six or eight inches will
answer; whether he had said that for an ex-
plosion in a crowd a shell is the best and
it should be globular to produce splendid re-
suits; whether he had said that gas pipe
with screw caps will produce brilliant re-
suits; whether he had advised shat fruit
jar be filed with powder tightly closed aud
having fuse be placed and that on bursting
the fiery benzine would be scattered; wheth-
er he advised the use of the deadly poison
curare on arrow heads. The witness grew
greatly excited when these questions were
asked and declined to answer each on the
same ground. He said vehemently, "What
have they to do with my speech at Kraemer's
Halle" But the judge in each case
allowed the question. Mosts definition Of
anarchy was an extended one. He described
himself as a communistic anarchist. He
said it took him ten years to understand an
archy. Anarchists desired the overthrow of
the present form of government. He thought
the present powers of the State would be de-
stroyed when the people grew stronger. The
state of anarchy would be one without COM
meree, but in which there would be COM
munities of men among whom wealth was
equally distributed. There would be scien
tiic schools where both sexes should be edu-
Gated in the same way. He believed in
force. The difficulty caused by capital will
most likely end in revolutions. Our princi-
pie, he said, is ssPeaceably if we can forci-
bly, if we must" He thought that in the
coming revolution explosives will be
used on both sides. Dynamite bombs are
more effective than cannon. A long dispute
arose when Host was asked if he believed in
God who punished perjury. Mr.. Howe
said the question could not be constitution
ally asked. The court said that if the wit
ness did not believe in such God it would
be for the jury to say if his credibility. was
affected thereby. In the course of the
argument Judge Cowing said the tendency
is to abolish the oath put to witnesses. He
believed that if a man was put on the stand
without an oath he would tell the truth as
quickly with one. He believed the
Bible had no effect on a witness.
Most finally, in answer to the question
whether he believed in a supreme being who
said that he did not. He believed, however,
that he would be punished here for perjury.
AS to first cause he could only say with
Socrates that eve know that we know moth
ingn The prosecution offered In evidence
the previous indictments of Most and the
record of the trial and the conviction to show
that the book on the cart of Revolutionary
Warfare" was not introduced in evidence on
Most's trial. Mr.. Howe objected, saying it
had been introduced and excluded. Most
said Recorder Smyth had bitterly referred
to it and had really sentenced him on it.
Both sides here announced that they had no
more evidence to offer. Judge Cowing said
he would limit each side to one hour in sum
ming up. Mr.. Howe began by saying that
Most was not on trial for what he had writ
ten nor what he had said before the meeting
in Kraemer's Hall. This is not trial of
John Most he said, but trial whether the
liberty of free speech shall exist in this coun-
try. The testimony for the prosecution as to
the speech made by Most was, he claimed,
utterly Enthusiastically and had been contract
ed by the witnesses for the defense whose tes-
timony had been mistaken.
Assistant District Attorney Nicoll in sum-
ming up for the prosecution said that liberty
could be preserved in this country by en-
forcing the laws and Furnishing its abuse.
Most had right to say the jury in the
Anarchist trial were bought, that the judge
was bought: he had right to say the pres
0ub 1uQ&0 anu Jury W0kO bOuBAV dLA WoAC
hirelings of capital, but when he threatens
an individual or class he is liable under
the statute. The only question was whether
Most did SO threaten. He argued that the
weight of testimony showed he did.
Judge Cowing in his charge told the jury
that Most was not TO be tried for his past
life nor for his belief, but for his speech at
Kraemer's Hail. "0ur love of free speech
and freedom for the press" he continued,
'fhas made as do away with many restrictions.
We are jealous of our liberty. Free speech
does not mean that an individual
has the right to Islander his nsigh-
Dor or to incite to riot. We do
not tolerate license, we encourage freedom.
We throw open our gates to all to come in
and enjoy citizenship, which we esteem
greater privilege than to be a king. We
marvel that in this country where everyone
is SO free there should be such men as Anar-
chists. Revolutions have come from injus-
tice, but never from Justice" After going
over the testimony carefully he said he failed